Willy Bocklant

Willy Bocklant

Willy Bocklant (1967)
To person
Date of birth	January 26, 1941
date of death	June 6, 1985
nation	Belgium
discipline	Road cycling
Team (s)
1962 1963 1964–1965 1966 1967 1968 1969	Faema Faema-Flandria Flandria-Romeo Mann-Grundig Flandria-De Clerck Pull Over Centrale-Motte Pull Over Centrale-Tasmania-Novy
Most important successes
1964 : Liège – Bastogne – Liège
Last updated: August 16, 2015

Willy Bocklant (also Willy Bocklandt ) (born January 26, 1941 in Bellegem , † June 6, 1985 in Mouscron ) was a Belgian cyclist .

Willy Bocklant was the son of cyclist Robert Bocklant, who raced in the 1940s. He himself began his athletic career as a competitive athlete in the late 1950s. In 1960 he won two stages as well as the overall classification of the Triptyque Ardennaise and the Circuit Franco-Belge , and the following year the GP Stan Ockers .

In 1962 Bocklant became a professional. The following year he decided the Tour de Romandie for himself and again the GP Stan Ockers . In 1964 he won the Tour of Piedmont and Liège – Bastogne – Liège and in 1965 the Grand Prix d'Isbergues, the Brabant Arrow , Brussels – Ingooigem and one stage each from Paris – Nice and the Tour de Romandie . In 1966 he suffered a serious fall, after which he could no longer build on his previous form. In 1967 he was still the winner at E3 Harelbeke .

Bocklant competed in the Tour de France three times - in 1963 , 1964 and 1965 - but was never able to finish it.

After retiring from cycling, Willy Bocklant opened a car wash, stopped doing sports and gained around 30 kilograms within two years. In 1985 he died of a heart attack at the age of 44.

Placements among the monuments of cycling

Monument to cycling	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
Milan – Sanremo	4th	[[Milan – Sanremo 1964 | ]]	41	23	22nd	-	-
Tour of Flanders	-	38	-	7th	44	14th	1
Paris – Roubaix	-	4th	-	7th	14th	25th	9
Liège – Bastogne – Liège	-	[[Liège – Bastogne – Liège 1964 | ]]	7th	7th	-	-	19th
Lombardy tour	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Willy Bocklant in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Willy Bocklant in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Palmarès de Willy Bocklant (Bel). In: Memoire du Cyclisme. Retrieved August 16, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} La carrière tronquée de Bocklant. In: lavenir.net. Retrieved August 16, 2015 (French).